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surface of glass; and be dashed to pieces upon CHAP. 
the shore, or, in some parts of the precipice, 
fall into the waves. The Story of Sappho has 
given the name of " The Lovers Leap'' to at 
least a dozen precipices, in as many different 
parts of the world; and this is one of the 
places whence Ino is said to have precipitated 
herself, with her son Melicertes* . Hence also 
the old stories of the dangers to which travellers 
were exposed in the narrow pass above the 
SCIRONIA SAXA, from the assaults of Scmoisr, 
who, it was said, compelled them to wash 
his feet, and then kicked them down these 
precipices into the sea. Not only were the 
rocks called Scironian, but the road itself was 
named SCIRON. It was said to have been 
enlarged by the Emperor Hadrian ; but we 
found it to be so narrow, after we had gained 
the heights, that there was barely room for 
two persons on horseback to pass each other. 
A lofty mountain above the pass, covered with 
snow during the greater part of the year, is 
called Gerao, the antient Gerania 3 . We had 
seen it from the Pass of Tretus, near the Cave of 
(2) Vid. Pausan. in Attic, c. 44. p. 103. eil. Kultnii. 
(3) JP'hcler says the modern name of Gerania is Paleo-vouni. See 
Jour, into Greece, p. 436. Land. 1682. 
